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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 14:58:23 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: A real fork() on NT
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On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 08:25:47PM +0100, Ralf Habacker wrote:
>>On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 07:50:45PM -0800, Barubary wrote:
>>>Do you have any idea how to compile a program for the win32 POSIX
>>>system?  If we could reverse engineer a win32 POSIX program that uses
>>>fork(), we could see the raw NT commands to do it.
>>
>>Corinna already provided a reference which provided you with a sample
>>of a Windows NT version of fork.
>>
>>Just buy the book and you're all set.
>>
>What about this approach using threads
>http://www.xav.com/perl/lib/Pod/perlfork.html

Given all of the caveats at that page, it's hard to understand how it
could be a general solution.

What about someone actually familiarizing themselves with how Cygwin
does things currently?  Then they can make some informed suggestions.

cgf

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